DHAKA: Planning Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal on Wednesday said that the country’s per capita income reached 1180 USD from 1044 USD.

He made that disclosure after the meeting of the Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (ECNEC).

ECNEC chairperson Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina presided over the meeting held at the NEC conference room at city’s Sher-e-Bangla Nagar. 

He said, “Per capita income in the first 10 months (July- April) of the current fiscal year increased by $ 136 from the same period of the last fiscal year and it would cross $ 2,000 by 2021, when the government is targeting to turn Bangladesh into a mid-income country.”

Planning minister also informed that the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth for the current fiscal year reaches 6.12 percent as per the estimation of the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS).

He also noted the country’s economy is one of those in the globe which has been able to maintain on an average 6 per cent growth rate for the last couple of years.

Planning Division Secretary Bhuiyan Shafiqul Islam and Statistics and Informatics Division Secretary M Nojobur Rahman were present at the briefing.

BDST: 2015 HRS, MAY 21, 2014